IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

Brian Daldorph is pictured with his book "Words is a Powerful Thing," which is about his experiences teaching creative writing at the Douglas County Jail. Brian Daldorph walked into the classroom at ...

One of America’s greatest living writers also happens to be one of the country’s longest-running teachers of creative writing. I’m talking about Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 50 novels, whose ...

Words Without Walls is a program at Chatham University teaching creative writing to residents of Pittsburgh-area correctional facilities and drug treatment centers.The instructors are students in ...

Every Tuesday, at the Janet Goeske Senior Center in Riverside, three writing groups gather to share lessons, laughter and their lives. Author CelenaDiana Bumpus has been teaching creative writing ...

Valeria Luiselli, an author and Bard College professor can be found teaching creative writing classes this year as a visiting Harvard professor. She has published six books, including the critically ...

Jacob Powers' passion for writing and storytelling was ignited in high school when Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" taught him that, sometimes, breaking the rules of writing was the key to a ...

After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you ...

The request was simple enough: Please come and talk to 11 separate Southern Indiana grade school classes about writing. You know, the thing you do for a living. Rearranging the alphabet into words.